'Safe' fibromyalgia magnesium supplements?

[each small step]

Hi All,

Thanks everyone for your wonderful help so far. When I was diagnosed with IC I stopped taking my fibro/CFS supplements as I thought they may have had a fair bit to do with my continual bladder ache/frequency.

I'm still working on getting my diet and medication right... but I'll spare you those whinges. I think I may hate elavil.

When I was diagnosed with CFS earlier this year, I was put on a magnesium supplement mix for my aches and pains. It was a miracle! Almost overnight my months of soreness and tenderness disappeared and stayed away. But when my bladder flared up it just made me hurt more, so I stopped. It does have B6 and C in it. For a while my aches didn't come back, but now they are starting again. I feel like I stuck between a sore bladder or sore everywhere else.

I read that magnesium itself shouldn't cause problems for IC. Can anyone here share with me there experiences taking Mg with IC? Maybe I can try taking just Mg instead.

Thanks all

[ICNDonna]

I can take magnesium with no problem; just be sure to talk with your doctor first.

Donna

[each small step]

Well I've been taking 2 x 500mg amino acid chelate magnesium with nothing else in it. And it has caused nothing but relief from all my itchy rashes. All my allergies and aches are starting to settle, and so too is my IC.

Don't know if the last is related, I've also been eating a really safe diet of late to watch the magnesium.

Next on the list to add is non-acidic Vit C.

Wish me luck :rolleyes:

[blondie_1147]

I have had a problem with chronic sometimes debilitating fatigue ever since I had EBV 5 years ago. I got over the illness but every once in a while I just get so tired and run down and drained I don't feel like doing anything. I figured it was CFS. I had every test you could take a few years back and there was nothing else to contribute it to. Well I have been getting aches and pains a lot lately. Just different places all over. It might be in one place one day and another the next. I was looking at the tender points and it said one was close to your clavicle bone. I am so tender there. I don't know if it is aches from CFS or if I may have fibro.

[each small step]

I hope you are feeling better soon, it can be really tough to be sapped of energy and feel achy, I sympathise. For me, I usually only have to deal with a restricted energy amount now, and if I be good and stick to my limits I'm not too bad. But every now and again, I just want to go out and be normal (stay up past 9:30pm at a wedding dinner) and then the aches start so that I want to cry if anyone hugs me and every noise makes my eyes water. But it is only if I push myself too hard.

Do you have a doctor you talk about your fatigue/aches with? It took me a while, but I've found a good GP who specialises in nutritional and environmental aspects of health, and she has really helped me. Before that I was sore nearly all the time. She found small things that weren't right that other doctors never took the time to investigate, and once sorted out, made a huge difference.

Best wishs

[georgecoolname]

Any particular name for those supplements. I have FM and IC. I have a lot of bladder problems too, so who knows? Make sure your docs know what's going on. Praying for ya.